A small rectangular dial with slim Roman numerals, blued steel hands, and tiny clear and red stone accents sits within a wide bracelet of stepped gold-tone brick links. It looks more like a cuff than a wristwatch. Lucerne made these jewelry-style dress watches through the 1950s, when a ladies’ watch was meant to be as decorative as it was useful. It still runs on its original wind-up movement. The broad, flexible links catch the light like sun on stacked stone.
Materials
Gold-tone metal, rhinestone accents
Details
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Era: 1950s
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Markings: Lucerne on the dial
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Style / design notes: Rectangular case set into a wide stepped brick-link bracelet. Silver-tone dial with Roman numerals, blued hands, and clear and red stone markers
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Function: Mechanical hand-wind movement, fold-over bracelet clasp
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Color: Gold, silver, red
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Condition: Good vintage condition. In working wind-up condition. The dial shows age spotting, and one stone marker near the VIII looks clouded or dark. One pink stone is loose in the face.There’s gold-tone wear on the clasp and on scattered high points of the links, plus light surface scratches on the bracelet and case back, please see images
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Measurement: 6.5"
Collected by Mineral and Matter
